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B. 0. WILSON.

INK BOTTLE. .No. 351,553. Patented Oct. 26, 1886.

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' BENNET O. WVILSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

INK-BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,553, dated October 26, 1886.

Application filed March 30, 1886.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENNET O. WiLsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ink-Bottles, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings, whereinp Figure l is a vertical section of an ink botments; and Fig. 2 is a like view showing man ner of filling the cell or reservoir in the neck of the bottle.

My invention has relation to bottles, reservoirs, wells, or other like fixtures for holding ink or other fluids having a cover or stopper; and'it has for its object to maintain a supply avoid immersing the'pen below the level of the ink in the bottle when full,dipping it down to the bottom of thobottle when nearly empty, and the consequent soiling of the fingers by the superfluous ink getting on the pen-holder in performing either one of said operations.

My invention accordingly consists of a cell or dipper permanently or loosely fastened, either by friction or otherwise, in the neck of the bottle below its stopper or cork, and to which the cork is preferably attached by a wire connection, so that it cannot be lost or niislaid,and having a vertically-arranged opening or communication between thebod y ot'the bottle and the space below the co rk,or between it and the cell,whereby, as the bottle isturned upside down, a portion of its. contents flows into and fills the cell in the bottle-neck, into which the pen or other instrument is dipped when the bottle is in its normal position and its stopper removed.

In the drawings, A represents a bottle or reservoir having a stopper, B, which has a wire or link connection, I), with asmall cell, O held by friction in the neck of the bottle, as I shown. This cell may be made of any 'suit- 1 able metal or other material, or it may be part of the bottle, and it has a vertical opening or communication with the body or interior of the bottle, as shown at c, and it is located a short distance below the stopper B, to form a space, d, between said cell and stopper.

The pen is dipped into the ink or fluid in cell 0, instead of into the bottle,as heretofore.

To fill the cell 0 with ink, the bottle is sim- (No model.)

ply turned upside down, as shown in Fig. 2, and then righted.

If desired, the cell 0 may hang loosely in the bottle-neck, and the cork, when removed and hanging over the side of the bottle-mouth, will keep the cell in position, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

The cell 0, it will be noted, is independent of or separate from the bottle'or reservoir stopper, and the link-connection b is preferably madeV shape, or bent, as shown, and is attached at one of its ends to the cell 0, and at the other to the cork or stopper B, so that when the latter is removed from the bottle the link 1) passes over or embraces the edge of the bottle-mouth to hold the cork or stopperB in position out of the way of the bottle-mouth.

It will be noted that whilethe cell 0 is attached to the stopper B by the bail 1), yet the cell is separate from the stopper-that is to say, the former is no partof the latter; hence my present invention does not embrace ink bottles or reservoirs in which the cell and stopper are inone piece, or in which the stopper is made hollow to provide a cell for the ink.

What I claim is 1. In combination with a bottle or reservoir, a removable stopper, a cell or well separate from but attached to the stopper, located in the neck of the bottle below the stopper and having a closed bottom, and communica tion with the body or interior of the bottle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a bottle or reservoir, a removable stopper, a cell or well located in the neck of the bottle below the stopper and having a closed bottom, a communication between the body or interior of the bottle and said cell or well, and a link-connection be tween the latter and the stopper, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a bottle or reservoir, a removable stopper or cork, B, a cell, 0, located in theneck of the reservoir below the stopper and having a closed bottom, and a channel or communicating opening, a, with the interior of the bottle, and. a bent or V shape link, 1), between stopper and cell, substant-ially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

\Vitnesses: *BENNET O. \VILSON.

S. J. VAN STAVOREN, CHAS. F. VAN HORN. 

